(Middletown, Conn., November 13, 2006)-Wesleyan University Adjunct Professor of Music Ronald J. Kuivila presents String Telephones and Shadows on Saturday, December 2 from 2-5pm. Kuivila leads a musical workshop in which a maze of string telephones becomes a multi-tonal sound installation. The World Art Family Series, of which this event is a part, consists of hour-long workshops to introduce children (ages 5 and up) to a world of new arts and ideas in an informal, hands-on setting. All events are free of charge and open to people of all ages. For more information or to register for the workshop, call 860-685-7871 or visit www.greenstreetartscenter.org.

Ronald J. Kuivila is Adjunct Professor of Music as well as Director of the Electronic Music and Recording Studios at Wesleyan University. Kuivila attended Wesleyan University (BA 1977, magna cum laude, music and mathematics) where he studied composition with Alvin Lucier and Richard Winslow, piano with Peter Armstrong and Jon Barlow, and shakuhachi with Yoshikazu Iwamoto. He also attended classes given by John Cage, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, and Lejaren Hiller at "June in Buffalo" in 1975. He composes music and creates sound installations that revolve around the unusual, homemade and home-modified electronic instruments he designs. He pioneered the use of ultrasound and sound sampling in live performance, and his more recent pieces have explored compositional algorithms and speech synthesis.

About the Green Street Arts Center
The Green Street Arts Center, which opened in January 2005, is an initiative of Wesleyan University developed in collaboration with the City of Middletown and the North End Action Team to provide an anchor for the revitalization efforts already underway in the North End. Programming in the former schoolhouse at 51 Green Street includes a vibrant after-school program and a wide range of affordable classes and workshops for children and adults in music, dance, visual arts, theater, sound recording, media arts and creative writing.

Participation at Green Street is open to everyone; tuition assistance is available. To receive more information about the Green Street Arts Center, call 860-685-7871 or visit www.greenstreetartscenter.org.